Sources

The photographs, letters, and manuscripts utilized in this exhibit are primarily from the Matthews-Chambers Collection at Western Historical Manuscript Collection, St. Louis, Missouri. Listed below are other sources used to develop this exhibit and sources for additional research.

Archival Collections

Bernays Collection, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Missouri.

Francis Collection, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Missouri.

Matthews-Chambers Papers, Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri - St. Louis.

Matthews, Leonard Papers, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Missouri.

Morton, Stratford Lee, Constitutional Convention Papers. Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri – Columbia.

Necrology Scrapbooks, Complied by Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Missouri.

Saint Louis History Papers, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Missouri.

Sprague, Harry E. Clippings Scrapbook, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Missouri.

Werner, L. Matthews Papers, Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri - St. Louis.

Books

Dann, A. E. History of the Simmons Hardware Company. 1921.

Matthews, Leonard. A Long Life in Review. Privately printed: 1928.

Werner, Matt. My Child and Camp. St. Louis: Clark-Sprague Printing Co., 1933.

Newspapers and Magazines

Bankers Monthly

Kirkwood Historical Review

Mary-ites of Moment

St. Louis Post Dispatch

St. Louis Globe Democrat